Campesinos Quotes

#1. Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents' professions as other children are of theirs.

Cesar Chavez

#2. The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

Noam Chomsky

#3. The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life ... The Bible ... should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.

Benjamin Rush

#4. There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.

David Sedaris

#5. Avarice is patriotic!

William Donaldson

#6. I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

Charlie Kaufman

#7. The white bowl of the street began to fill with darkness, from the pavement upwards, like somebody pouring tea into a cup.

Pat Barker

#8. Salad, I can't bear salad. It grows while you're eating it, you know.

Alan Ayckbourn

#9. The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today.

Pittacus Lore

#10. My Universe, crashing into yours, was the most beautiful accident this creation had ever witnessed.

Akshay Vasu

#11. Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.

Cassandra Clare

#12. Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)

Ovid

#13. Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.

Herbert Marcuse

#14. That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy of Hello! magazine.

Edward St. Aubyn

#15. Young people, if you honor your fathers, you will love them, respect them, confide in them, be considerate of them, express appreciation for them, and demonstrate all of these things by following their counsel in righteousness and by obeying the commandments of God.

Dallin H. Oaks

#16. Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.

Mark Winne